Dow Closes Up 18, Nasdaq Finishes Up 2 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Rising oil prices and the return of a bond market anomaly cut into Wall Street’s early gains Wednesday, leaving stocks with only a modest advance.

MOSCOW: LUKoil refinances loan on acquisition of Nelson Resources (Moldova.org)
Russian oil major LUKoil signed an agreement through its 100%-owned subsidiary LUKoil Finance Limited (Gibraltar) to take out a $1.93 billion syndicated loan to refinance its interim loan for the purchase of Canada’s Nelson Resources Limited, the company said Wednesday. LUKoil will receive an unsecured three-year loan at LIBOR + 0.7%. The loan will be organized by Citigroup, ABN AMRO Bank (the

JPs get update on hospital bonds at meeting: Investment rep says ‘timing good’ for refinancing (Benton Courier)
With rising federal interest rates, a Little Rock investment firm representative told Saline County officials the "timing was good" to refinance $22 million in revenue bonds for Saline Memorial Hospital.

Urbanfund Corp. Announces Mortgage Refinancing (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
TORONTO, ONTARIO– – Mitchell Cohen, President of Urbanfund Corp. , is pleased to confirm today that Urbanfund, along with it’s joint venture partner, Westdale Construction Co. Limited, has received a commitment to refinance their 554 unit twin-tower residential complex located on Richmond Street, West of Bathurst Street in Toronto.

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